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have been besetting
  • present perfect progressive of beset.

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For all the agitation that must have been besetting him, his manner was serene as ever.

From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael